On August 10, 1628, the l
On August 10, 1628, the largest warship in the world was launched from this city and foundered one mile from its mooring. A critical event in this city's growth was the prohibition of all export trade through Gaevle, thus giving this city a hinterland consisting of the entire Norrland. That policy was the work of the Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, who aimed to turn this into an imperial city. A notorious event named for this city occurred when Archbishop Gustavus Trolle, King Christian II's agent in this city, took violent revenge on the Sture faction, a policy that was the beginning of the end for the Kalmar Union. For ten points, name this site of a famous "bloodbath" which was ruled in the early seventeenth century by Gustavus Adolphus, the capital of Sweden.
On August 10, 1628, the largest warship in the world was launched from this city and foundered one mile from its mooring.
{Stockholm}